Travel Post Brexit and Covid

Hi

I travelled to Benidorm in September and going back next week and again in December 

I travelled from Stansted on Ryanair flight and all they checked was the usual stuff, passports and boarding cards

Our passports were date stamped at Alicante airport and Spain QR codes scanned as we entered baggage reclaim. You can't get the QR codes until 48 hours before arrival but the process was easy. 

We had to get tested in Spain 72 hours before we came home but you don't need to do that now if you are double jabbed. You will need to fill in the U.K. passenger location form 48 hours before you come home. It's on the gov.uk website. It takes about 30 mins ti complete. You will need to prove that you have purchased a day 2 Covid test. The company you order it from will send you a code to include on the form. You will also need to have your vaccine certificate.   You need to show your boarding cards to get into Alicante airport and then show your vaccine certificate and U.K. passenger Location Form when you check in

The check in queues were horrendous so allow loads of time

Hope that helps

I understand the Passenger Locator Form asks what seat you are going to be sitting in - how can you answer this if it gets allocated to you when you book in for your flight ?

You don't answer. You can answer when you know the seat number

Hi,

   we went end of September and returned last weekend. 

 Leaving the UK we were asked at the check-in desk to show the completed Spanish Health form and proof of our vaccination status. We have hard copies of the vaccination status that we got from the NHS and we had the NHS app on our mobiles where we can show the digital vaccination certificate On arrival in Spain we had to show the QR code that you get with the completed Spanish Health form, we had a hardcopy and copies on our mobiles. No issues with entry into Spain at Alicante airport.

  Note that as a visitor you now get your British passport stamped on arrival. 

Returning to the UK we had to show the completed UK passenger locator form and evidence of a booked day2 test at check-in. No issues leaving Spain. In the UK (Heathrow) we went through the automatic gates, no delays and not stopped.

Our passports were not stamped when we left, according to BA this is the way they do it now? Anyhow I am keeping my boarding passes just in case.

Used Simplytestme for our day2 tests, £12. Tests at home when we arrived, took 15 minutes to validate the results after we entered them on-line, good service. 

Rgds,

Aitch.